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More than 120,800 people have signed petitions asking US President Donald Trump to apologize for calling COVID-19 "the Chinese Virus" in a tweet and condemning his behavior, with an expert noting that his move could be seen as political, showing how irresponsible Trump is as a leader. An internet user called Y.L. Monday created a petition titled "President Trump owes all Chinese an apology for naming COVID-19 'the Chinese Virus' in his latest tweet" on We the People, a section of the official website of the White House, which is used for petitioning the administration's policy experts, after Trump wrote...

“The Quarantine of Lent” (John 9:1-3; Hebrews 12:2; Psalm 27:5) “Quarantine”: That’s a word we’re hearing a lot of these days. It means “a period of forced isolation,” and it is done in the interest of the public health. But do you know the origin of the term “quarantine”? It comes from the practice in medieval Italy of keeping ships suspected of carrying disease--of keeping those ships in isolation for a period of forty days. You see, the term “quarantina” literally means “forty days.” Well, the church has its own period of forty days, during which we are to self-isolate,...

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WARNING: Some pictures in the following story may be disturbing for some viewers. The remains of a mutilated animal left rotting in the street can be both disturbing to see and in some cases, illegal. But law enforcement rarely pursues charges in these cases which are more common than you might think. CASE IN THE ACREAGE Dorcas “DJ” Web has lived in the acreage for nearly 30 years. It’s an area she considered peaceful and quiet until she made a gruesome discovery down her street. She saw four cardboard boxes; one placed on each corner of the intersection. At first...

For centuries, people have reported seeing all manner of weird and wonderful monsters. Sometimes, their accounts are so similar, it makes you wonder if it might not have been a trick of the light or their imagination playing tricks on themFrightening and bizarre monsters have been encountered by mankind for hundreds of years. At least that's according to the thousands who claim to have seen them up close and personal, in the flesh. Among the creatures spotted by humans over the past few centuries are giant ape-like beasts and giant crawling insects many times bigger than humans. And, despite evidence...

President Trump acknowledged Saturday that the coronavirus pandemic was hurting his family business. “I wouldn’t say you’re thriving when you decide to close down your hotels and your businesses,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about reports his Trump Organization properties were being adversely affected by the virus. “I’m very unlevered in everything, so that’s good,” the president continued. “But is it hurting me? Yeah, it’s hurting me, and it’s hurting Hilton, and it’s hurting all of the great hotel chains all over the world.”

Covid19: Made in China pandemic SAMIR SARAN 20 March 2020 WHO, Medicines, Pandemic, COVID, Coronavirus, WTO, World Order, Economic System, Geoeoconomics Getty Ever since he assumed the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping has repeatedly announced the Middle Kingdom’s intention to occupy a position of global influence by the middle of the century. Over the past eight years, China has steadily manouevered itself into leadership positions in international institutions, has deepened its stranglehold over global supply chains and has animated old and new geopolitical conflicts. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan and...

Have Democrats found an alternative to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination? Some seem to think so: The hashtag #PresidentCuomo — referring to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — was trending on social media Saturday as the party’s voters continued to mull who should take on President Trump in November. Just a day earlier, the hashtag #WhereIsJoe was trending as some wondered why Biden’s national profile seemed to shrink amid the crisis — a situation Biden said he planned to address next week. The governor’s frequent appearances on television – national as well as local...

The NYPD is trying to reassure its rank-and-file during the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the Big Apple — but cops feel like the top brass couldn’t care less about their well-being. “We must be expendable,” one police source griped, calling the lack of direction “bulls–t.” Police officers across the city have been on edge for days, unsure about the spread of the virus in the department, unclear over what shift changes were coming down the pike and unable to get any answers. “It goes to show from the top-down no one gives a s–t,” another source said. “It’s clear...

Lay it Down by Melenie, fifty years a go.

..A group of patients who were among the first in Australia with confirmed cases of coronavirus have been successfully treated using two existing drugs. They were given HIV medication Kaletra and malaria treatment hydroxychloroquine in a secret trial. The test was so successful that the same drugs will now be given to COVID-19 patients in 50 hospitals around Australia. The two drugs were highly effective when used against coronavirus in test tubes. Researchers then conducted a secret trial on the group of patients - all of whom have completely recovered. University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research Director Professor David...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper appeared to downplay the novel coronavirus on-air March 4, telling viewers that they “should be more concerned about the flu.”...Cooper told viewers that the flu is deadlier than the novel coronavirus and urged people to be more worried about that...Cooper has since decided to anchor his show from home because of the novel coronavirus. He broadcasted from home Friday evening.

March 22 2020 Fourth Sunday of Lent Reading 1 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a The LORD said to Samuel: “Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen my king from among his sons.”As Jesse and his sons came to the sacrifice, Samuel looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is here before him.” But the LORD said to Samuel: “Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. Not as man sees does God see, because...

Democrats got a not so pleasant surprise on their plot to destroy President Trump with the Chinese Wuhan Virus. In order to stave off part of the attempt by Democrats to destroy the American economy, President Trump offered to offset some basic expenses for the public. He suggested a $1,000 rebate to citizens suffering due to the Chinese Wuhan Virus. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rejected the offer. Schumer commented in chambers:troy President Trump with the Chinese Wuhan Virus. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rejected the...

It’s just the flu, bro! Where is Rand Paul in all of this? We need him to stand up for freedom here. I see cultural changes coming out of this - try going to work with a mild common cold six months from now. This is not a big deal. I have had the flu about 3 times in my life and I never even thought about going to the doctor. Now people will be going to the doctor much more, and for much less.

On Friday, the Washington Post posted a bizarre and counterfactual story that alleges that Wuhan virus spread into the United States because President Trump ignored warnings from…get this…our intelligence agencies about a pandemic developing in China, a pandemic that was to become the foreign Chinese Wuhan Kung-Flu bat virus pandemic that has panicked us into shutting down the US economy. The bylines are Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima. All of these will seem familiar from the Russia Hoax stories that rolled out of the Post like marbles from a bag with holes in it. U.S. intelligence...

My prediction is that Biden is finished. The candidate will be Andrew Cuomo who has daily for the last week had a 60 to 90 minute press conference about what he’s doing in New York State/New York City. He is acting very presidential and he will be nominated from the floor to be the 2020 presidential candidate. You can bet on it. Crazy uncle Joe is finished. Where is he been all week.

Two Republican lawmakers are urging Twitter to ban Chinese Communist officials from its platform in response to the regime’s aggressive propaganda campaign to “whitewash” its coverup of the outbreak. “While the coronavirus pandemic is afflicting families, governments, and markets around the world, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a massive propaganda campaign to rewrite the history of COVID-19 and whitewash the Party’s lies,” wrote Sen. Ben Sasse (R- Neb.) and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) in a March 20 letter to Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey.Twitter is censored in China, but dozens of Chinese diplomats, embassies, and consulates are active on the...

They should have a sign at the entrance of the White House Press Room: “Please Check Your Personality Disorder at the Door.”.....Either that or Dante’s epochal “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate”—“Abandon hope all ye who enter here.” The assorted paleo-virtue signalers and candidates for anger management training that comprise the White House press corps have, as if it were possible, humiliated themselves more than ever, almost beyond recognition. To say they are more interested in scoring points against the president than eliciting information or even improving the precarious health and economic situations of their fellow Americans is close to the...

The Energy Department announced Thursday that it will purchase 77 million barrels of American-made crude oil to begin to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid the coronavirus outbreak. “DOE is moving quickly to support U.S. oil producers facing potentially catastrophic losses from the impacts of COVID-19 and the intentional disruption to world oil markets by foreign actors,” Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said in a statement Thursday.The Energy Department is expected to purchase an initial 30 million barrels of crude oil, with a focus on small to midsize U.S. oil producers. “The small to midsize oil producers, which are the focus...